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Example sentences for "nurses"

Lexicographically close words:
nursemaids; nurseries; nursery; nurseryman; nurserymen; nursie; nursing; nursings; nursling; nurslings
  1. Thoodaudana, with the tender solicitude of a vigilant father, procured for his beloved offspring nurses exempt from all corporeal defects, and remarkable for their beautiful and graceful appearance.

  2. The royal infant was brought out by his nurses on this joyful occasion.

  3. A class of cultivated, well-trained, intelligent nurses would soon elevate the employment of attending on the sick into the noble calling it ought to be, and secure for it its appropriate rewards.

  4. I do trust that Miss Blackwell's band of educated nurses will not be long in coming, and that the number of such may increase till they effect a complete revolution in this vocation.

  5. Otherwise, I imagine she will go to a Seattle hospital, and with doctors and nurses away to the war there's a chance she may not get the best of care.

  6. The doctors and the nurses tell me things, sir, they're afraid to tell you," he began.

  7. The only passengers were two nurses with bands of little ones, seeking fresh air in a neighboring park; and slipping the book under her veil, Beryl began to examine its contents.

  8. Father was very willing for me to become a nurse, for he said that there would be war in America, and that nurses would be needed.

  9. Since I had been in Company H, I had never spoken to a woman except the nurses in the hospitals.

  10. Lipton, Sir Thomas, with Duchess of Westminster and her Red Cross nurses on board the yacht Erin, vii: 136.

  11. Doctors, matron, nurses said nothing of the extra hours of work they put in on my account; of the watching and the tending when they were really supposed to be off duty.

  12. I shall never forget the morning that I was taken away by a couple of nurses to the seaside.

  13. I didn’t want to be among strangers and with nurses whom I had never seen before; I wanted to be nursed by people I knew.

  14. The nurses warmed to the work, the ward sister came in to give her views, and for the first time for weeks I found myself smiling.

  15. For some weeks at least, whether the mother nurses her baby or not, she requires much more than ordinary rest and nourishment.

  16. The women-workers claim equal wages for equal work, and married women claim wages for the work they perform as housekeepers, nurses or cooks, or all three.

  17. Crowds of nurses lead children with heads of angel, and hear all in blushing the compliments of soldiers in a red pantaloon.

  18. But the mammas and nurses of England are beforehand with the journalist.

  19. You quite assume that he was stolen, and not that he wandered away, as children will do when their nurses are gossiping?

  20. I have seen so many cases of it here that Herbert and I have quite decided that our child shall not be spoilt in this way, but shall be brought up in England as English children are, to obey their nurses and to do as they are ordered.

  21. He had been run over, while drunk, the nurses told her, and very seriously hurt.

  22. He did not know her name, or anything about her; but before he left the hospital he asked one of the nurses who she was.

  23. It was in times like this that I missed so frightfully the well-appointed hospitals and the women nurses of England.

  24. I saw a cheerful future before me, for I found that the nurses would diverge, not in the slightest degree, from the customs of their ancestors.

  25. The Hakim and nurses sat on the ground again.

  26. Immediately one of the old nurses followed me out and begged a hair from my head, so that no evil should result from my having left him while he was laughing.

  27. Hence, in holiday seasons, Mr. Baines weighed more heavily on his household than at other times, and his nurses relieved each other according to the contingencies of the moment rather than by a set programme of hours.

  28. They had offered the practical sympathy of two intelligent and well-trained young women, born nurses by reason of their sex, and Mr. Povey had accepted; he was now on their hands.

  29. Our nurses used to take us out together in our buggies.

  30. Tenderly as two nurses with a sick man, the bearers set Gridley down.

  31. Was the hospital to your taste, the nurses pretty?

  32. I suppose I had been babbling about it in my sleep and one of the nurses had told him.

  33. If they're all doctors and nurses we'll be fairly swamped with workers.

  34. Nurses were all right in their places, but it hardly seemed as though one of them should want to keep company with scouts when they were on dangerous duty.

  35. Hugh understood that at this convention there was to be shown one of the very newest motor ambulances, together with its regular traveling doctor and two nurses of the Red Cross.

  36. Those who can stand the trip may be taken away, with one of the nurses in charge; the other I will keep by me for the present.

  37. There would be nothing to be done but to try the usual methods, with the usual unsatisfactory results, abandoning her at last to the care of her relations and nurses as a hopeless idiot.

  38. At one of the tables a middle-aged woman sat reading; as we entered she looked up at us, and I saw that she was one of the nurses in charge of Madame Patoff.

  39. The darkening room had grown silent again, and the sense of oppression was becoming unendurable to the three of them, when one of the nurses slipped into the room to say: "The Princess Gregoriev is in her bed.

  40. There were two professional nurses to anticipate her every want, while old Másha, hitherto her one attendant, cowered snuffling in a dark corner of the room.

  41. It is noteworthy that the Army Order specifically mentions not only the Colonial and Indian forces, but nurses and nursing sisters.

  42. These proposals give some idea of what is contemplated with regard to the ordinary nurses in a General Military Hospital.

  43. Of female nurses it is not necessary to say much in America, any more than in England or France.

  44. The superintendent of the nurses in each institution must be a woman of high quality and large experience.

  45. Nobody doubts that many lives would be saved in every great hospital from the time that fevered frames and the flickerings of struggling vitality were put under the charge of the nurses whom Nature made.

  46. She must have a decisive voice in the choice of her nurses; and she will choose them for their qualifications as nurses only, after being satisfied as to their character, health, and temper.

  47. They said that doctors and patients and nurses all liked the Regimental Hospital best, and this was clear proof that it was the best.

  48. The nurses attributed Adrienne's cry and violent actions to a fit of furious madness.

  49. Whilst one of the nurses held her up, the other unfastened and took off the cloth dress of the young girl, whose head drooped languidly on her bosom.

  50. I had a nervous breakdown, and the quiet was heavenly, and all the nurses were angels.

  51. He had nurses up from Baltimore and down from New York.

  52. Where the conditions were unfavorable, he transferred the patient to Crossroads, where Nancy and Sulie and Milly and a trio of nurses formed an enthusiastic hospital staff.

  53. You are starving her," he told the nurses fiercely.

  54. There were nurses now, but Eric Brand would not be turned out.

  55. You do what the doctors and nurses tell you to!

  56. Adams has prepared a list of women and girls he wants to assign as nurses and aides.

  57. Cooperation on the part of the children and parents with the doctors or nurses of the board of health will do much in removing this handicap from many young lives.

  58. Eventually they break their cells and take their place as workers in the hive, first as nurses for the young and later as pollen gatherers and honey makers.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nurses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.